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Cc: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)
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On 18/06/2012 09:11, Atte Peltomäki wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 03:43:37PM -0400, Outback Dingo wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Atte Peltomäki <atte.peltomaki@iki.fi> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 02:09:38PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote:
>>>> Also, I am certain that the OpenRC developers would be thrilled if
>>>> FreeBSD adopted OpenRC. If FreeBSD core is interested in OpenRC, feel
>>>> free to contact the OpenRC and/or the Gentoo FreeBSD developers. We
>>>> would all love to see OpenRC in upstream FreeBSD.
>>> Replacing rc(8) has a lot of risks and not many benefits. Current system
>>> is somewhat limited, but it works, it's simple to understand and
>>> everyone already knows it and uses it.
>>>
>>> Solaris SMF is by far the most advanced bootup/service manager I've come
>>> across,   [...]
>>>
>>> Personally, as much as I like power of SMF, I think FreeBSD devs have
>>> much more important (and interesting) things to do.
>> Theres  always Launchd also.........
> Launchd is strikingly similar to SMF, which probably isn't a
> coincidence, knowing how much other code Apple pulled from Solaris
> during those days.
>
There was even some work done to get it working for FreeBSD if anyone
feels like taking it up again.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/launchd